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Description

Of raised cylindrical form, on spreading domed foot pierced with hearts and apostrophes at intervals and applied with a cast ropetwist and reeded band above; the bayonet-fitting high domed cover with similar applied band below a continuous pattern of pierced hearts, apostrophes, teardrops and scrolls arranged in groups of four, with double baluster finial rising from a flat calyx of cut-card stylized scrolls; the front engraved with a coat-of-arms within crossed plume mantling.

Dimensions

17.5 × 8.9 cm (6 7/8 × 3 1/2 in.) 395 g

Provenance

Archibald Alexander Hutchinson, New York, bequest; to Fogg Art Museum, 1949